A Decade of Hit Books

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Paula Jurca (19 Lists)



Smoke Gets in Your Eyes & Other Lessons from the Crematory by Caitlin DoughtySalt by Mark KurlanskyThe Emperor of All Maladies by Siddhartha MukherjeeGut by Giulia EndersThe Potato by Larry Zuckerman
You Read a Book about What?
4,166 books — 2,522 voters
A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin
The Best Epic Fantasy (fiction)
4,816 books — 27,001 voters

A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin
Best Fantasy Series, Trilogies, and Duologies
2,258 books — 12,221 voters
Out of Africa by Isak DinesenThe Complete Persepolis by Marjane SatrapiTruth & Beauty by Ann Patchett
Memoirs by Women
3,446 books — 3,878 voters

Persepolis 2 by Marjane SatrapiNight by Elie WieselInto Thin Air by Jon KrakauerPersepolis by Marjane SatrapiInto the Wild by Jon Krakauer
Best Memoir / Biography / Autobiography
6,700 books — 8,292 voters
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Books You Wish You Could Force All Your Friends to Read
1,784 books — 843 voters

The Trial by Franz KafkaCollapse by Jared Diamond
This Is the End...
1,018 books — 1,609 voters
1984 by George OrwellBrave New World by Aldous HuxleyFoundation by Isaac AsimovThe Foundation Trilogy by Isaac Asimov
Best Science Fiction & Fantasy Books
8,837 books — 26,146 voters

The Prose Edda by Snorri SturlusonThe Poetic Edda by UnknownThe Children of Odin by Padraic ColumEgil's Saga by AnonymousThe Nibelungenlied by Unknown
Norse Mythology
303 books — 464 voters
Pride and Prejudice by Jane AustenThe Catcher in the Rye by J.D. SalingerThe Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-ExupéryWuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
Books That Everyone Should Read At Least Once
32,948 books — 125,087 voters

Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft ShelleyDracula by Bram StokerThe Complete Stories and Poems by Edgar Allan PoeWuthering Heights by Emily BrontëThe Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
The best gothic novels, ghost stories and early horror 1764-1937
377 books — 748 voters
2001 by Arthur C. Clarke
Archaeology Novels
222 books — 96 voters

Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez
The Best of the Best Romance Novels of the Twentieth Century
656 books — 2,253 voters
The Trial by Franz KafkaThe Metamorphosis by Franz KafkaSteppenwolf by Hermann HesseThe Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
Best Philosophical Literature
1,215 books — 2,824 voters

The God Delusion by Richard DawkinsThe Language Instinct by Steven Pinker
Best Non-Fiction (no biographies)
6,414 books — 8,208 voters
Mary Poppins by P.L. TraversPippi Longstocking by Astrid LindgrenWinnie-the-Pooh by A.A. MilneLittle Women by Louisa May AlcottLittle House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder
Favorite books from my childhood
4,524 books — 7,735 voters

Catch-22 by Joseph HellerCrime and Punishment by Fyodor DostoevskyAnna Karenina by Leo TolstoyOn the Road by Jack KerouacGreat Expectations by Charles Dickens
The Most Begun "Read but Unfinished" (Started) book ever
2,730 books — 13,309 voters
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger1984 by George OrwellFahrenheit 451 by Ray BradburyBrave New World by Aldous HuxleyThe Stranger by Albert Camus
Best Books of the 20th Century
7,818 books — 49,885 voters

Wuthering Heights by Emily BrontëSiddhartha by Hermann HesseLife of Pi by Yann MartelBrave New World by Aldous Huxley
Best Books Ever
79,434 books — 296,140 voters